North Carolina Innocence Panel

The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission is the only special innocence panel in the country.  It was established in 2006 to review claims of innocence by prisoners in the state after several wrongful convictions were brought to public attention.  Over the last four years, the Commission has reviewed hundreds of cases, but has only passed on three to a three-judge panel hearing.  Of those three, only the last case, ruled on February 17, 2010, was overturned.  George Taylor, who was convicted and jailed for murdering a prostitute in 1991, was found innocent, and was finally freed from prison.

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